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Narco-Terrorism Nexus: A Comparative Analysis Between United States and Israel Media Discourse.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Narco-Terrorism Nexus: A Comparative Analysis Between United States and Israel Media Discourse./
Author:	Blackstone, Michael R.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2024,
Description:	117 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International85-11.
Subject:	Criminology. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=31296648
ISBN:	9798382751351

Narco-Terrorism Nexus: A Comparative Analysis Between United States and Israel Media Discourse.
Blackstone, Michael R.

Narco-Terrorism Nexus: A Comparative Analysis Between United States and Israel Media Discourse. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024 - 117 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 85-11.

Thesis (M.S.)--Northern Arizona University, 2024.

Narco-terrorism blurs the lines between criminal and terrorist organizations with their involvement in illicit drug trafficking. Once considered as two separate entities, such as policies like the War on Drugs and the War on Terrorism initiated by the United States, the fusion of drug trafficking and terrorist activities blend both phenomena's together that pose a complex security challenge for nation-states such as the United States and Israel to combat. On the one hand, the United States primarily contends with powerful drug cartels, such as the Sinaloa or the Gulf Cartels who are designated as drug trafficking organizations that facilitate massive amounts of drugs such as cocaine and synthetic drugs into the United States through the southern border with Mexico (Medel, Lu, & Chow, 2015). On the other hand, Israel primarily contends with terrorist originations across the Middle East, that are constantly seeking new ways to fund their organizations, such as Hamas, a Palestinian militant Islamist group that operates in the West Bank and in Gaza and Hezbollah, a Shia Islamist political and military organization, that is based in Lebanon, who are engaging in drug smuggling to finance their operations locally and broad (Clarke, 2016, p. 1). One notable difference is the volume of drugs that are being used in that the United States suffers significantly from drug trafficking compared to that of Israel. In F.Y. 2023, the United States Customs and Border Patrol seized over 549,238 lbs of illicit drug substances. On the other hand, for Irael the number of drugs seized were relatively small. In FY 2022, Israeli authorities seized 10,000 lbs of hashish, cocaine, and other drugs worth some $57 million (Levitt & Thaden, 2023)As such, the United States and Israel ideally make a great comparison due to their distinct historical, cultural, and geopolitical contexts. The differences between these two countries, where one endures a high level of drug smugglings but little terrorist activist, while the other endures high levels of armed conflict but little drug smuggling across its border, thus offers a revealing lens to understand the phenomenon of narco-terrorism. Specifically, I am interested in how the media from these two countries portray the threats of drugs and terrorism in order to examine the rhetorical and political implications of both states' focus on narco-terrorism as their borders. I used a comparative historical analysis, specifically a content analysis of articles from major media outlets in how the concept of narco-terrorism is discussed in both countries. I analyzed 50 news articles, 25 from each respective country, published from September 12th, 2001, to December 31st, 2023, through the theoretical lenses of moral panic and racial capitalism theory from analyzing these articles I identified four findings. The first findings discuss the interconnection of cartels and terrorism in both Israeli and United States' media outlets and how they are using connective language to draw a connection between terrorist organizations in the middle east and cartels in Latin America, that both groups are becoming more intertwined. The second finding relates to the emphasis on violent organizations capabilities, that the vast arsenal of weapons acquired by both cartels and terrorist groups are justified for an increase in security. Which then leads to the third finding of hybridization of police and military roles were both the United States and Israel intertwine their military and police. In relation to their media outlets use military and security language which reinforces to this justification for an increase in security. The last theme I identified was dehumanization and vilifying of terrorist organizations, Israeli media outlets used dehumanization language on terrorist groups that stems back from its foundation as a means to showcase how terrorist organizations like Hamas are inhuman and evil.

ISBN: 9798382751351Subjects--Topical Terms:

533274
Criminology.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Narco-terrorism

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